"Writing detailed specs and then giving them to an AI is not the optimal way to work with AI." Perfect. I loosely define things, and then correct it, and tell it to make the corrections, and it gets trained, but you have to constantly watch it. Its like a glorified auto-typer.
"Ignore all of the LinkedIn and social media hype about prompting apps into existence." Absolutely, its not hype, its pure marketing bullshitzen.
I have token issues three times a day, and I just upgraded to pro... and now this... now I cancel. my work flow was co-pilot to Gemini to Claude Code... and the bottle neck was always CC. Always. I am done. It should be pretty easy to replace CC.
AI used to be, the punched card replicator... its all replaceable.
The counterfactual to virtue signaling is genuine, anonymous, or quiet action—acting on moral convictions without seeking public recognition or social status.
While virtue signaling is a public, often insincere display of moral superiority (a "recognition desire"), the true alternative is "walking the walk" through tangible deeds.
Note: Never make angry the gods of code. Never. If you do, they will leave angry on Friday night, and come back with some *amazing* thing like this on Monday:
Obligatory: Brilliant Work. Brilliant.
"We wanted both and couldn't find it, so we built it and open-sourced the whole thing."
It was mostly written in COBOL. This is how I got into XENIX/UNIX. A machine went down that was a training machine: It required XENIX on a PC, because it ran on RM/COBOL on XENIX, because all the screens, and the encoding, already written were in COBOL. RM/COBOL had an ancient compatibility, but the code was extremely simple, having been ironed out many decades earlier. ( I got it in 1985, but all the creation dates were 1982. The original files must have been from the mid 1960s. I pointed this out, and someone called me on it. I found a training manual from 1966, and the screens were exactly The same, except of course for the 3270 status line.
It was fast on an 4.77Mhz IBM PC, and much faster on a 10Mhz V20.
50,000 transactions was pretty standard for a IBM Mainframe, now? The z/ Series is still about the same, but it scales up to 32 processors. ( excuse me, billions. per day )
Most of the systems used for GDS’s were in fact written in Assembler. I know as I have worked with a number of the systems. This is one, but not the only reason the different systems have remained on TPF machines.
Interesting - would have thought they all would be uploaded by now. I feel like I bought the set years ago when Dr Dobbs folded but I can't seem to dig them up. However I did find my Verity Stob archive CD :) (which looks like it might already be on the archive - I can't be sure as mine is still sealed in the shipping packaged, never opened it)
When someone mentioned that these were available for download, I printed them in high res tabloid, and had them enlarged 4x and put the best two on my wall.
It literally entered my though my pores... I became a better designer, a better illustrator, a better carpenter, a much better visualizer.
I used to live in San Rafael, and San Anselmo, a stones throw away from the Marin Civic Center, and two of his houses... I studied and sketched the Civic Center from many angles, and saw 'Gattica.'
"Ignore all of the LinkedIn and social media hype about prompting apps into existence." Absolutely, its not hype, its pure marketing bullshitzen.
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